Improved clamp for wringing-machines



UNITED STATES PATENT JAMES STIMPSON, OF BALDVINSVILLE, MASSACHUSETTS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 5&69/1, dated October9, 1866.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that l, JAMES STrnrsoN, ot' Baldwinsville, in the county of Worcester and State of Massachusetts, haveinvented a new and Improved Clothes \Vringing Machine; and I do herebydeclare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description ot'the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making apart of this specification, in which- Figure l is a front sectional Viewot' my in` vention, taken in the line x m, Fig. 2; Fig. 2, a transversevertical section of the same, taken in the line y y, Fig. 1.

Similar letters ot' reference indicate corresponding parts in the twofigures.

The invention consists in an improved means for securing the machine tothe box or tub, whereby the machine may be adjusted to tubs ot ditterentsizes or diameters, and having staves ot' different thicknesses, andalso adjusted to boxes having sides of different thicknesses.

To enable others skilled'in the art to fully understand and construct myinvention, I will proceed to describe it.

A A represent the two end pieces ot' the frame of the wringing-machine.These end pieces are constructed of cast-iron, each piece A having apendent bar, a, which forms its lower part, the upper parts, b, beingofrectangular open or skeleton form, like a frame. The upper parts, b,have their sides and upper and lower ends of curved form transversely,the curved sides forming recesses cx, to receive india-rubber springs B,two at each side or end piece.

The lower ends of the springs B are tted in sockets c in cross-bars C,which are allowed to rise and fall freely in the recesses a", and theupper ends of said springs are titted in caps or sockets c in the undersides of crossbars C', upon which set-screws I), which pass through thetops ot' the side pieces, A A, bear.

'In the lower cross-bars C the journals e of the upper roller, E, arettted, while the journals of the lower roller, E', are tted in the lowerends of the upper parts, b, ot' the end pieces, A A, and are permanent.

The rollers E E may be constructed in the usual, or in any proper way.That are termed the india-rubber rollers77 will be most genA erallyemployed, as they have not, as yet, been superseded.

At one side of the upper parts, b, of the end pieces, A A, there areflanges, to which vertical wooden bars g are attached, and the twometallic end pieces, A A, are connected by wooden transverse bars F F,one of which has its ends iitted and secured in sockets 7L at the upperends of the parts b ot the end pieces, and the ends of the lower bar, F,are fitted and secured in sockets h at the lower parts ot` b.

On the upper part ot' each pendent bar a of the end pieces, A A, thereis fitted a horizontal bar, G, and these bars are allowed to turn freelyon a, and have each a pendent rod, H, which rods are parallel with thebars a. The horizontal bars G are sustained in proper position on thebars a by means of lips or pro jectionst' on said bars, the bars havingrecesses made in them, so that they may be slipped down and oft' fromthe bars a.

Through the upper part of each pendent rod H there passes a horizontalscrew, I, and the inner ends of these screws may be made to bear againstthe edges of sector-projections J at the lower ends ot' the parts b ot'the end pieces, A.

By this arrangement the rods H may be turned and secured in any positionwithin the scope ot nearly a quarter-circle, which is all that isnecessary. 'lhis adjustment of the rods H admits of the machine beingfitted to tubs of different diameters.

To the under side of each bar G there is attached a spring, K. Thesesprings extend down at the inner side ot each bar c, and set-v screws L,which pass horizontally through the lower parts of the bars a, bearagainst these springs K, which prevent the tub or box being injured ormarred by the ends of the setscrews.

The wooden bars g g prevent the clothes, as they pass between therollers E E, from coming in contact with the metallic end pieces, A A,while the transverse bars F F, which connect the end pieces, A A, beingof wood, cannot, ot' course, soil the clothes. The springs B, inconsequence of being fitted in caps or sockets in the cross-bars G C',as shown, are

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the edges of' sector-projections J, for the purpose described.

2. The springs K, in combination with the adjustable rods H, set-screwsL, and pendent bersl a, arranged as and for the purpose set ort 1.

JAMES STIMPSON.

Witnesses STILLMAN GABY, GILMAN DAY.

